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Blockbuster are clearing out all their VHS stock on a £1.99 each / 3 for £3 offer. Yep. I couldn't beleive it either --- when my brother explained to me why he went out for a little tour round our town's shopping district with his visiting GF and came back with a stack of tapes... on a student budget.

As ever there's a good few nuggets of gold in the pile hidden within a sea of dross, so it pays to get in early. And of course, it's ex rental stuff, so the quality may be a bit hooky... but they do offer some kind of "6 month guarantee" on it, quite what that means, I don't know.

Still it's a movie for a quid, which is not to be sniffed at. You could pay as much downloading DivXs off 56k if your phone provider is cruel.

I got 12 today and there's 3, maybe 6 more i might go back and get if they haven't been snaffled (didn't have a great amount of time to continue digging, and i was running out of carrying strength). The list, as a taster...

Jurassic Park 1 & 2
Starship Troopers
Pulp Fiction
Back to the Future
Mission Impossible
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Robocop
The Princess Bride
Mallrats
Dr No
2001

as you can see the cheapness also lets you get stuff you like but can't justify a £10+ DVD purchase for

To go: Top Gun, Speed, fluff like that... maybe more Bond as well, as they're well represented.

And to think these once would have been £15 a pop!
Get in!



PS if you like your X-Files, Friends, Xena, Stargate etc etc, it could be a very cost effective way to get whole series in one go, if you have the arm strength to carry them all! They've got LOTS of them... and that's just in a small local one that's basically the ground floor of someones house knocked through.

Whats a vhs? is it those small discs?

metz wrote:Whats a vhs? is it those small discs?

Metz

Any sign of The Breakfast Club Mr Tahrey?? Methinks a trip to Blockbuster is in order tomorrow morning - after filling up with BP and before going to McDonalds for breakfast

the breakfast club..what a cool film....ohh the good old days with fergasun video star players..massive piano keys...watching a pirate copy of E.T..man copys were bad those days..you kids today dont know your born *waves zimmer frame angrily*

hehehe

Breakfast club? I don't know, i might have been interested enough to get it, if i'd seen it there. However as i say - that's only the story in my local store (birmingham road, sutton coldfield - you're welcome to look, but be warned that me and my bro have bogied the best ones already).... haven't looked in any others, though there are a couple larger ones within easy driving distance that i might browse tomorrow.

Your best bet is just to figure out if your local blockies is close enough to be worth the trip, and then go look for yourself

my brother also got good stuff, like Batman, Batman Returns, Die hard 1 2 and 3, Terminator 1 & 2, Crying Freeman (live action version), and The Lensman (an awesome bit of classic animated 80s sci-fi nonsense, based on Doc E Smith's books, and containing a lot of early Tron-like effects --- if you can stand the annoying 'comic relief' character). Pretty good.
The Lethal Weapon series and stuff like that is also there.
I could have had a few other anime things (AD Police etc) and old tapes of MASK/other common 80s/early 90s kids stuff if i wanted, but to be honest, not that bothered - and if i am, i can easily get it off the net.

A lot of it will be things you can probably record off the telly if you wait a month or two and keep your eye on the listings, but this way you don't have to deal with adverts, or losing the first five minutes.

(actually, considering they're ex-rental, the picture and sound quality on the ones we already watched were quite good - once i sorted out the head-tracking and picture sharpness controls on our knackered, neglected old VCR. They'd drifted out quite a bit, so it looked horrible to begin with, but returned closer to the level of a badly mastered DVD once properly "tuned")

VHS.

That's a name I haven't heard in a very long time, luke.

I remember getting our first VHS machine in about '84/'85. It was smashing! All my mates recorders had piano keys and top loading... Not ours! Front loading, black and IR remote control

P I M P E D O U T V H S M A C H I N E !

Either way... I couldn't make any use of this offer, cos my current video recorder is knackered. It chewwed up my Tai Bo video and it's never worked since. I can't be arsed to take it apart to see what's the matter... So it's just sitting in my brother's room under his TV with the word ERROR constantly displayed on its LED Calculator-Style display.

Nice

well you know....... they're a tenner a pop down at tescos now.....

(probably)

get it replaced before the prices shoot up - just like audio cassette it's probably going to be another decade before the final nails are at last hammered firmly into it's coffin.

even though i discovered, on resetting the VCR clock this morning, that it's internal calendar only runs through to the end of 2007.....
i mean, we only bought that video and 21" tv a mere.... um.... ten years ago?

..it would explain the awful squealing noise it makes when attempting it's once-amazing super-high-speed rewind...
oh, those magic days where being able to spin forwards at 14x normal speed (IF you used long-play!) was the mutts nuts in home cinema terms